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An unabridged audio collection
of the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2009 by current
and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In
“Erosion,” by Ian Creasey, A man tests the
limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying Earth. In “As Women Fight,” by
Sara Genge, a hunter, in a society of
body-switchers, has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife’s body. In
“A Story, with Beans,” by Steven Gould, the
role of religion in a dystopian future plagued with metal-eating bugs is
considered. In “Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance,” by John Kessel, a monk, in the far future, steals
the only copy of a set of plays from a repressive regime and uses this loot to
free his people. In “On the Human Plan,” by Jay Lake,
a mysterious alien visits a far-future, dying Earth in search of the death of
Death. Set in the Jackaroo sequence, “Crimes and Glory,” by Paul McAuley, a detective chases a thief to
recover alien technology that both aliens and humanity are desperate to recover.
Set in the Lovecraftian “Boojum” universe, “Mongoose” by Sarah Monette and
Elizabeth Bear, a vermin hunter and his tentacled assistant come on
board a space station to hunt toves and raths. In “Before My Last Breath,” by Robert Reed, a geologist discovers a strange
fossil in a coal mine that leads to the discovery of a peculiar graveyard. In
“The Island,” by Peter Watts, a woman on a
spaceship must decide whether to place a stargate near an alien society that
will ultimately destroy it. Finally, “This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable
Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe,” by Robert Charles
Wilson, is an alternate American Civil War history in which the war
was never fought, slavery gradually disappeared, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
was never published.